Hacker Papers

1. 376
   

   ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture; increasing shape bias improves accuracy and robustness

   Robert Geirhos et al. · 2018

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2019People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
   • Feb 2021What Inception Net Doesn't See
   • May 2024AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)

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2. 377
   

   Lessons from Building Acoustic Models with a Million Hours of Speech

   Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Nikko Strom · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Apr 2019Alexa researchers train speech recognizer on 1M hours of unlabeled speech
   • Dec 2019Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
   • Apr 2020Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch

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3. 378
   

   BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline

   Ian Tenney et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2021Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence
   • Feb 2023We Found an Neuron in GPT-2
   • May 2023Show HN: Visual intuitive explanations of LLM concepts (LLM University)

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4. 379
   

   Deep Learning Recommendation Model for Personalization and Recommendation Systems

   Maxim Naumov et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
   • Mar 2024Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure
   • Mar 2025Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

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5. 380
   

   Hamiltonian Neural Networks

   Sam Greydanus et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Feb 2020Sometimes, requiring explanability is counterproductive
   • Jun 2020Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'
   • Jul 2020AI in physics: are we facing a scientific revolution?

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6. 381
   

   A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox

   Kok-Wei Bong et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Aug 2020Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
   • Dec 2021Does superdeterminism save quantum mechanics?
   • Jul 2024Metaphysical experiments probe our hidden assumptions about reality

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7. 382
   

   Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance

   Austin Hounsel et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2019What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
   • Dec 2025RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (2016)
   • Mar 2026Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

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8. 383
   

   Attention is not not Explanation

   Sarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
   • Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
   • Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices

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9. 384
   

   KuroNet: Pre-Modern Japanese Kuzushiji Character Recognition with Deep Learning

   Tarin Clanuwat et al. · 2019

   Hacker News threads

   • Nov 2019Machine Learning Can Help Unlock the World of Ancient Japan
   • Dec 2025The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition
   • Apr 2026Hokusai and Tesselations

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10. 385
    

    Failure of Normalization in Impredicative Type Theory with Proof-Irrelevant Propositional Equality

    Andreas Abel, Thierry Coquand · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Jan 2020Coq is a Lean Typechecker
    • Jun 2021Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
    • Jun 2026Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap

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11. 386
    

    Array Languages Make Neural Networks Fast

    Artjoms Šinkarovs et al. · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
    • Mar 2023HN thread 34978026
    • Jun 2024Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license

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12. 387
    

    OTEANN: Estimating the Transparency of Orthographies with an Artificial Neural Network

    Xavier Marjou · 2019

    Hacker News threads

    • Nov 2020What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019)
    • May 2023Deseret Alphabet
    • Jul 2025Why English doesn't use accents
    • Jul 2025Why English doesn't use accents

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